I don't think I've been banned, but I did a similar thing. I requested all my data from Reddit, then used that list of comment/post IDs to mass-edit them. I think I'm in the clear because I used the official third party API, with an official "app." If you used the private API or instrumented this via the browser, that may be why you were banned.

Anyway, if you or someone else wants their full history, Reddit will give it to you via a data export request.

Unfortunately they still have everything. It's good for the "human" visibility (lack of) but they have the data still

OpenAI was literally that until it wasn't

Mostly "this has been answered in another thread" and "why don't you Google it" comments in my experience.

The other 20% is mostly high quality however, and I'm sure they'd filter out the heavily downvoted crud.

One time I was went on there to figure out an issue in Arduino. The answer one guy gave was "I don't know how to do this in Arduino, here's how you do this in Java". Not only the the mods prevent any other answers from being posted, I tried the guy's suggestion in Java and it didn't even work

That SA part needs to be tested in court against the AI models themselves

A lot of this shittiness would probably go away if there was a risk that ingesting certain content would mean you need to release the actual model to the public.

AI companies are hoping for a ruling that says content generated from a model trained on content is not a derivative work. So far, the Sarah Silverman lawsuit seems to be going that way, at least; the claimants were set back because they've been asked to prove the connection between AI output and their specific inputs.

If this does become jurisprudence or law in one or more countries, licenses don't mean jack. You can put the AGPL on your stuff and AI could suck it up into their model and use it for whatever they want, and you couldn't do anything about it.

The AI training sets for all common models contains copyright works like entire books, movies, and websites. Don't forget that most websites don't even have a license, and that that unlicensed work is as illegal to replicate as any book or movie normally would be, including internet comments. If AI data sets need to comply with copyright, all current AI will need to be retrained (except maybe for that image AI by that stock photo company, which is exclusively trained on licensed work).

There was similar things done on Reddit during the big exit. I doubt it achieved what people expected it to achieve. Even if they’re not visible externally, I’m sure they can easily access (thereby make deals to license) the data out of their backend / backup; just a matter of how hard they want to try (hint: it’s really not very hard).

Fine, but when coding projects undergo licensing changes that the contributors are against, the code author has to remove those contributions and replace them.

Those answers were given in good faith under the presumption that they would be read and used by another person. Not used to train something to remove the interactions which motivated the answer in the first place.

Simple answer: people vs corporations. A dev or homelabber getting help from you is very different from a company making billions just by mass shoveling your knowledge to the highest bidder.

The reason we need this as a fediverse service is that everyone can take in this knowledge and one corp doesnt have the ability to sell it. Thats what the worth comes from. Someone holding they key to it.

Currently, all answers are properly attributed. But once OpenAI will have trained and sell a “hackerman” persona, do you really think it will answer people’s questions with ”This answer was contributed by i_am_not_a_robot” or will it just sell this as its own answer?

Dunno. GDPR is a Europe only thing, and isn't it only related to how your private data (like name, IP address, phone number) is cared about ?

There's no way that would work either, they can just store the full edit history and auto-curate as needed.

People did that. Stack overflow reverted the change.

If that would happen, I assume companies would just grab an older copy of the dumps from before people started editing their stuff because of the AI bullshit.

SA would ban everyone sabotaging their business plans and things would move on like normal, like what happened to Reddit.

Maybe https://www.codidact.com/

let's all go back to experts exchange